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100 1 $aBruce, Steve,$d1954-$eauthor.
245 10 $aResearching religion :$bwhy we need social science /$cSteve Bruce.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $aviii, 245 pages :$bIllustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrelude: basic principles of social research -- The value of social science -- Defining religion -- Measuring religion -- Bias in social research -- Ethics in social research -- Conversion: motives, structures, and discourse -- Social theory and religion -- Action rational and irrational -- Does danger make people religious?
520 8 $aThis book establishes the relevance of social science for the study of religion and promotes a particular kind of social science. Even if we confine ourselves to academic disciplines, there are very many ways of viewing religion. Certain kinds of questions about religion can only be answered by the methods and approaches of social science: if one is interested in the social causes and consequences of religious belief and behaviour, then one has to do social science. Steve Bruce underlines the value of quantitative social research. He shows that while detailed ethnographies have enormous value in helping us get 'inside' religious belief and behaviour, they are severely limited by problems of scale and representativeness in their value for generating and testing explanations. While the primary focus is social research, the examples are drawn from studies of religious belief and behaviour, so it also presents a very large number of important observations about the nature of religion in the modern world.
650 0 $aReligion and sociology.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xResearch.
650 7 $aReligion and sociology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01093858
650 7 $aSocial sciences$xResearch.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01122944
650 7 $a11.01 systematic religious studies: general.$0(NL-LeOCL)077593898$2nbc
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